Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848

Cover
Serial Forms: The Unfinished Project of Modernity, 1815-1848
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Serial Forms
	Why 1815–1848?
	Why London?
	News, History, Shows
	Mediality and Materiality
	Seriality: Reformatting the Future
	After 1848
	The Argument of Serial Forms
Chapter 1: Yesterday’s News
	Borrowing the News
	Weekly Rhythms: Sunday Papers and Twopenny Papers
	‘Straggling Papers’: Broadsides, Ballads and Chapbooks
	Yearly Rhythms: Almanacs
Chapter 2: Scott Unbound
	Ballads, Broadsides, and Miscellanies
	Serializing the Miscellany
	Scrapbooks and Albums
	Mediation and News: The Antiquary
	Citizenship and Shared Reading
Chapter 3: Live Byron
	Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and the Moving Panorama of the Past
	News and the Scandal of the Topical
	‘A Storm and Shipwreck’: The Shows of London
	Scalar Effects
	Seriality and Survival
	Live Performance and Bodily Authenticity
	Conclusion
Chapter 4: Vesuvius on the Strand
	Vesuvius as a Serial Event
	Fizzing and Roaring: Revolutionary Noise
	Revolutionary Seriality
	Bulwer’s Vesuvius Show: The Last Days of Pompeii
	Dailiness and the Event
Chapter 5: Scalar: Pugin, Carlyle, Dickens
	Historicism in the Early Nineteenth Century
	‘Real-Phantasmagory’: Mediation and the Past
	Scale in Pugin and Carlyle
	London Streets: Advertising and Scale
	Social Seriality and Sketches by Boz
	Conclusion
Chapter 6: History in Miniature
	Seriality and Miscellanity: The Mirror and the Twopenny Magazines
	Woodcuts and the ‘Active Power of Images’
	Image—Object—Event: Serializing the Ancient Past in the Mirror and the Penny Magazine
	Historical Objects as Events
	Touching the Past: Toys and Games
	Conclusion: The Scale of History
Chapter 7: Biopolitics of Seriality
	‘Generation’ and ‘Life’
	Chronobiopolitics: Family Time, Calendars and Seriality
	Interruptible Gaskell
	Biocitizenship, Race and Howitt’s Journal
	1848 and Revolution: Conclusion
Conclusion: 1848 and Serial Revolutions
Bibliography
Index